The doctor explained the process of recovery—how breaking up all the scar tissue is excruciating and how the body has to go about it slowly to build up its tolerance. Lars looked the doctor in the face and bluntly asked, “Pain is the only thing? There are no other repercussions?” “The kind of pain I’m talking about is enough of a repercussion.” “So, I could get it back now if I could take the pain?” The doctor laughed. “Sure, but you don’t want to do that.” Lars stood up right then and there, pulled off his sling, placed his arm in the frame of the office door, and jerked his arm straight. He
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